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Software for use : a practical guide to the models and methods of usage-centered design /

In the quest for quality, software developers have long focused on improving the internal architecture of their products. Larry L. Constantine --who originally created structured design to effect such improvement--now joins with well-known consultant Lucy A.D. Lockwood to turn the focus of software...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Constantine, Larry L.
Otros Autores: Lockwood, Lucy A. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley, ©1999.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Software for use: usage, usability, and user interfaces
  • Built-in usability: a usage-centered design approach
  • In principle: rules and principles of usage-centered design
  • Users and related species: understanding users
  • Working structures: task modeling with essential use cases
  • Interface architecture: interface contents and navigation
  • Designing the dialoge: layout and communication
  • Practical widgetry: choosing and designing visual components
  • Innovative interfaces: creative interface engineering and custom components
  • Expressing solutions: implementation modeling and prototypes
  • Help me if you can: designing help and helpful messages
  • Once a beginner: support evolving usage patterns
  • In place: fitting the operational context
  • Same game, different fields: special applications, special issues
  • Usage-centered design applied: the teleguida case
  • - Better next time: improvement by inspection and review
  • By the numbers: measuring usability in practice
  • Test scores: laboratory and field testing of usability
  • Code and you're done: implementing interfaces
  • Using your users: users in the development process
  • Getting organized: usability in the larger context.